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Del Worsham returned to the scene of his horrific wreck to get right back to work on Saturday, and even made a near perfect run to 900-feet before a planned early shut-off. He remained in the No. 1 spot through that session, but then sat out the final run. In the end, as the sun set and the track conditions began to border on perfect, Worsham's 4.712 slipped to the No. 4 spot on the grid. He will face Gary Densham in round one on Sunday.
"I really wanted to get back out there during the first session, just to make sure I could do it and the car could do it," Worsham said. "I was pretty sure I was okay, but sitting in the car and stuffing towels under the seat to relieve pressure on your tail bone can't simulate what it's like to launch in one of these cars. The most serious thing we needed to look at was the engine set-up, because we've blown the car up two runs in a row here. The guys really thrashed and worked their tails off to get the car ready for the first session, and we were actually still in the pit buttoning things up with only a couple of pairs to go, but we made it. It ran great, I felt good enough to not worry about it, and we brought it back to the pits smiling.
"At that point, we decided we had way too much work to do and I probably needed to rest if we wanted to have a shot at doing anything good on Sunday. We had parts spread out all over the pit, we had some service work we had to do on blowers and cylinder heads, and we needed to tweak this chassis a little more just to make sure I fit in it and can steer it okay. As it got cooler, I knew Force and those guys could run in the 4.60s, so I wasn't surprised we got knocked back down to 4th. Heck, I was pretty happy we weren't back in 7th or 8th!"
WORSHAM GETS BACK IN THE SADDLE, WILL RACE FROM No. 4 SPOT
Del Worsham returned to the scene of his horrific wreck to get right back to work on Saturday, and even made a near perfect run to 900-feet before a planned early shut-off. He remained in the No. 1 spot through that session, but then sat out the final run. In the end, as the sun set and the track conditions began to border on perfect, Worsham's 4.712 slipped to the No. 4 spot on the grid. He will face Gary Densham in round one on Sunday.
"I really wanted to get back out there during the first session, just to make sure I could do it and the car could do it," Worsham said. "I was pretty sure I was okay, but sitting in the car and stuffing towels under the seat to relieve pressure on your tail bone can't simulate what it's like to launch in one of these cars. The most serious thing we needed to look at was the engine set-up, because we've blown the car up two runs in a row here. The guys really thrashed and worked their tails off to get the car ready for the first session, and we were actually still in the pit buttoning things up with only a couple of pairs to go, but we made it. It ran great, I felt good enough to not worry about it, and we brought it back to the pits smiling.
"At that point, we decided we had way too much work to do and I probably needed to rest if we wanted to have a shot at doing anything good on Sunday. We had parts spread out all over the pit, we had some service work we had to do on blowers and cylinder heads, and we needed to tweak this chassis a little more just to make sure I fit in it and can steer it okay. As it got cooler, I knew Force and those guys could run in the 4.60s, so I wasn't surprised we got knocked back down to 4th. Heck, I was pretty happy we weren't back in 7th or 8th!"
